Private Sidney Ward
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Date of Birth
1882
Date of Death
1 Sep 1914
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Sidney Ward was 1 of 3 children born to William & Mary in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1882.
He married Mary Elizabeth Cottam in Nottingham in 1902.
In 1911 he is working for Raleigh as a cycle hand & living with his family at No 4 Nugent Street, Nottingham. Mary is 28 & at home looking after Lillian 8, Doris 4 & 2 year old son Francis.
On 8th January 1912 William joined the 7th Battalion Notts & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) giving his home address as 44 Calcutta Street & his father as next of kin.
On 24th August 1914 William was admitted to Bute Hospital in Luton with acute lobar pneumonia. It was reported that this was brought on by 'lying in the wet when guarding a railway bridge between Trent & Notts when first embodied' from 5th to 21st August 1914.
William died in hospital on 1st September 1914 & was buried in the cemetery on Crawley Green Road.
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Author: KarenC
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